Tag: Eva Bartlett
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Gaza massacre reflections
Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 28 December 2009 The anniversary of the first day of Israel’s massacre of Gaza last winter passed yesterday. Palestinians still locked in Gaza couldn’t avoid thinking about that hell, recalling to others where they were when the first strikes hit…what they did, what they thought, what they saw and smelled…
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Israeli forces shoot at Gaza bird-catchers, farmers
Eva Bartlett | The Electronic Intifada 20 November 2009 On 15 November at 8:30am, a number of young men went as usual to the land near Gaza’s northern border with Israel planning to catch birds. Amjad Hassanain, 27, was among the bird-catchers hunting near the border fence when Israeli soldiers began shooting. The shots which…
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In Gaza even the dead are denied dignity
Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 14 November 2009 Graves in Gaza: denied dignity Long denied cement, a sparse few are able to improvise with over-expensive, tunnel-delivered Egyptian cement. The others simply bury under the sand. Most of these sand-graves in Jabaliya’s Faluja cemetary are from the Israeli massacre of Gaza nearly a year ago. The…